Guide to the Immortals

Blight power (as per spell) twice a day
Speak with the dead (as per spell) once a week
Animate dead (as per spell) once a month
Avengers' skills & powers: Control undead as liege of
same level instead of turn undead, plus one of the powers
in the above mentioned list chosen at random (roll
1d10).
D&D 3E Stats
Domains: Entropy, Evil, Death, Corruption, Darkness,
Cold
Favoured weapon: Heavy mace
Source: GAZ7, HW, WotI, CoM, SCS
HIRCISMUS
(Leptar)
Patron of Violence, Lord of Pain
Level, Alignment, Sphere: 13 th (Celestial), CE,
Entropy
Symbol: A cat of nine tails
Portfolio: Violence, pain, torture, destruction,
humanoids
Worshipped in: Known World (Karameikos,
Soderfjord)
Appearance: Hircismus is an enormous, muscular
humanoid with a body covered by a long, shaggy pelt
under which are hidden poisonous spines, his arms are
disproportionably large that are dragged behind with the
posture of a gorilla, his hairless face covered by always
sweating, fleshy skin and by deformed features, with eyes
that rotate like mad, his cheeks covered by perennially
animated dribble caused by the convulsive quivering of
his constant laughing, armed with a cat-of-nine-tails and
without armour, seeing that his passion is fighting man to
man. His only garment is a robust belt from which
dangle twelve severed, groaning heads with eyes opened
wide in an eternal expression of horror (one of these
macabre trophies is a druji skull together with two druji
eyes, which Hircismus uses for unfairly fighting his
enemies).
History (PROBABLE THEORY): Hircismus lived
with the mortal name of Leptar in the Broken Lands during
the rise of Queen Ubdala. No one is exactly sure which race
he belonged to, but he was a humanoid so fat and violent
that he frightened even the members of his own family, who
wouldn’t dare contradict his decisions. After having followed
the great horde of Ubdala in the invasion of Rockhome,
Leptar was one of the thousands of humanoids that fled
southwards to safety via the Sardal Pass (492 BC). Setting
himself as the chief of the surviving goblinoids, Leptar
initially led them in raiding the small human villages of
eastern Darokin, until 491 BC when they invaded the
Traladaran lands, which ended with them directly
threatening the human communities of the Volaga valley -
for which he gained the appreciation of Orcus. With his
numerous cruel followers, Leptar pillaged the other
numerous Traldar settlements in the eastern part of present
day Karameikos, forcing the survivors to flee. These races,
together with the invasion of other human raiders arriving
from the north, brought the paltry remains of the Traldar
culture to its knees, which fell into its dark age and in the
following centuries was transformed into the Traladaran
culture. To finish off his work Leptar decided to perform an
epic action, assaulting the city of Krakatos, the last Traldar
kingdom remaining standing. After many months spent
pillaging the nearby countryside for supplies, the humanoids
finally stormed the city with the help of the shamans of
Orcus, who summoned hordes of plague-infected rats. In the
confusion that followed, most Traldars and as well as
humanoids lost their lives to disease (the former due to
hunger, and the latter for having eaten the rotten meat).
This turned his victory into a catastrophic defeat. Hircismus
guided those that remained of his band northwards, in
search of the miraculous water that according to the Traldar
legend gushed from the Fountain of Chardastes. Thanks to
the help of the shamans, Hircismus discovered the sanctuary
and was able to recover from the disease thanks to the
curative powers of the magical water. However, he then
killed all the clerics who guarded it, destroyed the temple of
Chardastes, and hid the Fountain of Life (an artefact of
Chardastes) to complete his rise to Immortality in the Sphere
of Entropy at the end of the V century BC. This exploit
earned him the enmity of both Petra and of Chardastes. His
history, later, become a gruesome legend told to frighten
children during the cold Traladaran nights. Now his cult is
secretly popular among some human fanatics and humanoids
of Karameikos, who worshipped him with the ancient with
which he was known (Leptar), while among the humanoid
tribes of Soderfjord he manifested himself with his Immortal
name, or Hircismus, and is one of the more important
Immortals.
Personality: Hircismus is a hairy brute without too
much brains, only capable of fighting and torturing his
adversaries with terrible methods. For this he is recognised
as patron of torture, pain, and tyranny by his followers
(especially among the kobolds of Soderfjord and amongst the
more brutal warriors and slavers of the Known World). He
is also often a bogeyman evoked by Traladaran mothers to
their disobedient children. Hircismus is a ferocious adversary
of Halav, Petra, Zirchev, and Chardastes and most often
seeks the alliance of Orcus when he needs him.
Patron: Unknown [presumed Orcus]
Allies: Occasionally Orcus
Enemies: Chardastes, Petra, Halav, Zirchev
Classic D&D Stats
Followers’ Alignment: Chaotic
Favoured weapon: Whip and scourge (allowed all
bludgeoning weapons)
Clerics’ skills and powers: +1 bonus to Strength, free
torture general skill
D&D 3E Stats
Domains: Entropy, Chaos, Evil, Pain
Favoured weapon: Whip or scourge
Source: IM3, GAZ7, WotI, B1–9
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